[Dark Group Owner: Nobita, you're not dreaming. @everyone, come say hello.]
[The Strongest Assassin of Xuanwu: What's up? I'm on the road, going incognito.]
[Cat Burglar: Mmm, I'm practicing controlling storms, no time for now.]
[This Queen Is So Beautiful: Talk later, killing a Sea King.]
[True Love Is Agumon: Group Owner, do you think I have time right now?]
[Second Pillar Thinks He Can Do It / The Dead-Last Jinchuriki: Cultivating Sage Mode, shouldn't be distracted.]
[Dark Group Owner: …]
Hattori had a black line over his head, 'These guys were all busy at the same time.'
'No choice.'
'I'd have to explain the Darkening Chat Group to Nobita himself.'
[Dark Group Owner: @The Nap-Loving Sharpshooter, This is the Darkening Chat Group, gathering countless people with the potential for darkness from across the myriad worlds.]
[Dark Group Owner: You are the chosen one.]
'Me?'
Nobita looked at his own silly appearance and embarrassedly scratched the back of his head.
[The Nap-Loving Sharpshooter: Uh, thank you for the compliment, Group Owner, but I'm not someone with the potential for darkness. I'm just a fourth-grade elementary school student.]
'And the kind who gets bullied by Gian every day, the lowest-status kind.'
Nobita poked his fingers, adding indignantly in his heart.
[Dark Group Owner: That's just for now. One day in the future, you might very well become someone who influences the universe. Isn't Doraemon's existence the best proof?]
[The Nap-Loving Sharpshooter: You know about Doraemon? I've never told anyone outside before.]
Nobita's eyes widened in surprise.
Doraemon had only arrived at their home yesterday.
Besides his parents, no one else knew of its existence.
[Dark Group Owner: How I know isn't important. What's important is: Its pocket has many amazing tools. You know that, right?]
A strange curve lifted the corner of Hattori's lips, like a devil's smile.
This group member, Nobita, was somewhat different from the others.
In the Darkening Chat Group, there were characters like Naruto and Taichi, who had tragic experiences themselves and deserved sympathy.
Hattori was willing to guide them onto a path of darkness that cleared all obstacles.
There were also characters like Seven and Hei Xiaohu, who possessed great strength but were temporarily lost and needed guidance.
But Nobita was different from everyone else.
To put it bluntly, aside from his protagonist halo, most of the time, he was a complete good-for-nothing.
Cowardly and weak-willed, lecherous and greedy, lacking ambition yet always causing trouble everywhere.
Corresponding to his long list of titles, across the multiverse, the troubles he caused were also numerous.
Compared to guiding him to turn dark, Hattori wanted more to control him and extract the value of Doraemon's tools.
After all, among the future tools in that one pocket, quite a few were bug-level existences powerful enough to shake the laws of causality.
[The Nap-Loving Sharpshooter: I know that. But Doraemon is very stingy. He only lets me borrow them to play with for a little while. It's not satisfying at all.]
Nobita pouted, saying with a displeased expression.
In his childish thinking, he didn't yet understand the significance those tools represented.
[Dark Group Owner: Hah, since he's so stingy, why not just take that Four-Dimensional Pocket and run off to a place no one knows, and play however you want?]
Hattori quickly typed, finally steering the conversation to the crucial point.
In the original Doraemon Anime, there was one particularly thought-provoking episode:
"Nobita's Deserted Island."
In that episode, Nobita stole a few tools and ran away from home alone to survive on a deserted island.
Due to misusing a tool, his parents and Doraemon didn't come looking for him for a full thirty years.
He spent thirty difficult years on the deserted island.
Doraemon finally found Nobita thirty years later.
Used the Time Cloth to restore him to his original state, then sent him back thirty years in time.
Only then did everything end.
What Hattori wanted to do was replicate the plot of that episode!
Incite Nobita to steal Doraemon's Four-Dimensional Pocket, run away from home, and go alone to a desolate island.
At this point in time, Nobita had no understanding of the Four-Dimensional Pocket and the tools inside.
Trapped on the deserted island, he could only seek Hattori's help.
When the time came, Hattori, who had watched Doraemon countless times and was familiar with all the various tools, could easily extort a few powerful tools from Nobita, right?
Of course, all this required Nobita's cooperation.
If he weren't petty, if he knew how to care for his family, if he considered the consequences of his actions...
Then naturally, all of Hattori's schemes would have no starting point.
But...
"Given Nobita's personality, is it possible he might do this?"
A smile curled on Hattori's lips as he continued typing.
[Dark Group Owner: Doraemon's Four-Dimensional Pocket is washed and hung on the windowsill every week. Everything depends on whether you can seize the opportunity.]
[The Nap-Loving Sharpshooter: I…]
Nobita's mind went blank for a moment. He was just about to respond when a furious roar suddenly came from outside the window, vibrating his eardrums painfully.
"Nobita! Why haven't you delivered the baseball yet?! Do you want a beating?!"
'It was Gian's voice!'
Nobita trembled in fear, hurriedly pulled out the baseball, and scrambled downstairs, stumbling and crawling.
And it was at this moment, the devil's seed was quietly planted in Nobita's heart.